in 


r\j 


<£^r^O^\ 


u 


NITED    STATES    BUREAU    OF    EDUCATION 


FEDERAL  LAWS,  REGULATIONS, 
AND  RULINGS  AFFECTING  THE 
LAND-GRANT  COLLEGES  OF  AGRI- 
CULTURE AND    MECHANIC  ARTS 


;-ULTURAL 
LIBRARY, 

UNIVERSITY 
__ OF 

CALIFORNIA. 


WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT  PRINTING  OFFICE 

1911 


A 


Main  Lib. 
|0fc.  Dept, 


Morrill  Land-Grant  Act  of   1862. 

AN    ACT    Donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories  which  may 
provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts. 

Be  it  enacted  by  tlie  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  be  granted  to  the 
several  States,  for  the  purposes  hereinafter  mentioned,  an  amount  of 
public  land,  to  be  apportioned  to  each  State  a  quantity  equal  to 
30,000  acres  for  each  Senator  and  Representative  in  Congress  to  which 
the  States  are  respectively  entitled  by  the  apportionment  under  the 
census  of  1860:  Provided,  That  no  mineral  lands  shall  be  selected  or 
purchased  under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  land  aforesaid,  after 
being  surveyed,  shall  be  apportioned  to  the  several  States  in  sections 
or  subdivisions  of  sections,  not  less  than  one-quarter  of  a  section;  and 
wherever  there  are  public  lands  in  a  State,  subject  to  sale  at  private 
entry  at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  acre,  the  quantity  to 
which  said  State  shall  be  entitled  shall  be  selected  from  such  lands, 
within  the  limits  of  such  State;  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  is 
hereby  directed  to  issue  to  each  of  the  States,  in  which  there  is  not  the 
quantity  of  public  lands  subject  to  sale  at  private  entry,  at  one  dollar 
and  twenty-five  cents  per  acre,  to  which  said  State  may  be  entitled 
under  the  provisions  of  tins  act,  land  scrip  to  the  amount  in  acres  for 
the  deficiency  of  its  distributive  share;  said  scrip  to  be  sold  by  said 
States,  and  the  proceeds  thereof  applied  to  the  uses  and  purposes 
prescribed  in  this  act,  and  for  no  other  use  or  purpose  whatsoever: 
Provided,  That  in  no  case  shall  any  State  to  which  land  scrip  may  thus 
be  issued  be  allowed  to  locate  the  same  within  the  limits  of  any  other 
State,  or  of  any  territory  of  the  United  States;  but  their  assignees 
may  thus  locate  said  land  scrip  upon  any  of  the  unappropriated  lands 
of  the  United  States  subject  to  sale  at  private  entry,  at  one  dollar  and 
twenty-five  cents,  or  less,  an  acre:  And  provided  further,  That  not 
more  than  one  million  acres  shall  be  located  by  such  assignees  in  any 
one  of  the  States:  And  provided  further,  That  no  such  location  shall  be 
made  before  one  year  from  the  passage  of  this  act. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  the  expenses  of  manage- 
ment, superintendence  and  taxes  from  date  of  selection  of  said  lauds, 
previous  to  their  sales,  and  all  expenses  incurred  in  the  management 
and  disbursement  of  moneys  which  may  be  received  therefrom,  shall 

15900-n  272704    ■  s 


4  COLLEGES   OF   AGRICULTURE   AND    MECHANIC   ARTS. 

be  paid  by  the  States  to  which  they  may  belong,  out  of  the  Treasury 
of  said  States,  so  that  the  entire  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  said  lands  shall 
be  applied,  without  any  diminution  whatever,  to  the  purposes 
hereinafter  mentioned. 

Sec  4.  And  he  it  further  enacted,  That  all  moneys  derived  from  the 
sale  of  the  lands  aforesaid  by  the  States  to  which  the  lands  are  appor- 
tioned, and  from  the  sales  of  land  scrip  hereinbefore  provided  for, 
shall  be  invested  in  stocks  of  the  United  States,  or  of  the  States,  or 
some  other  safe  stocks,  yielding  not  less  than  five  per  centum  upon  the 
par  value  of  said  stocks;  and  that  the  moneys  so  invested  shall  con- 
stitute a  perpetual  fund,  the  capital  of  which  shall  remain  forever 
undiminished,  except  so  far  as  may  be  provided  in  section  fifth  of  this 
act,  and  the  interest  of  which  shall  be  inviolably  appropriated,  by 
each  State  which  may  take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  this  act,  to  the 
endowment,  support,  and  maintenance  of,  at  least,  one  college,  where 
the  leading  object"  shall  be,  without  excluding  other  scientific  and 
classical  studies,  and  including  military  tactics,  to  teach  such  branches 
of  learning  as  are  related  to  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  in  such 
manner  as  the  Legislatures  of  the  States  may  respectively  prescribe, 
in  order  to  promote  the  liberal  and  practical  education  of  the  industrial 
classes  in  the  several  pursuits  and  professions  in  life. 

Sec.  5.  And  he  itjurther  enacted,  That  the  grant  of  land  and  land 
scrip  hereby  authorized  shall  be  made  on  the  following  conditions,  to 
which,  as  well  as  to  the  provisions  hereinbefore  contained,  the  pre- 
vious assent  of  the  several  States  shall  be  signified  by  legislative  acts: 

First.  If  any  portion  of  the  fund  invested,  as  provided  by  the  fore- 
going section,  or  any  portion  of  the  interest  thereon,  shall,  by  any 
action  or  contingency,  be  diminished  or  lost,  it  shall  be  replaced  by 
the  State  to  which  it  belongs,  so  that  the  capital  of  the  fund  shall  re- 
main forever  undiminished;  and  the  annual  interest  shall  be  regu- 
larly applied  without  diminution  to  the  purposes  mentioned  in  the 
fourth  section  of  this  act,  except  that  a  sum,  not  exceeding  ten  per 
centum  upon  the  amount  received  by  any  State  under  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  may  be  expended  for  the  purchase  of  lands  for  sites  or 
experimental  farms,  whenever  authorized  by  the  respective  Legisla- 
tures of  said  States; 

Second.  No  portion  of  said  fund,  nor  the  interest  thereon,  shall  be 
applied,  directly  or  indirectly,  under  any  pretense  whatever,  to  the 
purchase,  erection,  preservation,  or  repair  of  any  building  or  buildings; 

Third.  Any  State  which  may  take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  shall  provide,  within  five  years,  at  least  not  less 
than  one  college,  as  prescribed  in  the  fourth  section  of  this  act,  or  the 
grant  to  such  State  shall  cease;  and  said  State  shall  be  bound  to  pay 
the  United  States  the  amount  received  of  any  lands  previously  sold, 
and  that  the  title  to  purchasers  under  the  State  shall  be  valid; 


FEDERAL,  LAWS,    REGULATIONS,    AND   RULINGS.  5 

Fourth.  An  annual  report  shall  be  made  regarding  the  progress  of 
each  college,  recording  any  improvements  and  experiments  made, 
with  their  costs  and  results,  and  such  other  matters,  including  State 
industrial  and  economical  statistics,  as  may  be  supposed  useful;  one 
cop}'  of  which  shall  be  transmitted  by  mail  free,  by  each,  to  all  the 
other  colleges  which  may  be  endowed  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  and  also  one  copy  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior; 

Fifth.  When  lands  shall  be  selected  from  those  which  have  been 
raised  to  double  the  minimum  price  in  consequence  of  railroad  grants, 
they  shall  be  computed  to  the  States  at  the  maximum  price,  and  the 
number  of  acres  proportionally  diminished; 

Sixth.  No  State,  while  in  a  condition  of  rebellion  or  insurrection 
against  the  government  of  the  United  States,  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
benefit  of  this  act; 

Seventh.  No  State  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  this  act  unless 
it  shall  express  its  acceptance  thereof  b}r  its  Legislature  within  two 
years  from  the  date  of  its  approval  by  the  President. 

Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  land  scrip  issued  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act  shall  not  be  subject  to  location  until  after  the 
first  day  of  January,  1863. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  land  officers  shall  receive  the 
same  fees  for  locating  land  scrip  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act  as  is  now  allowed  for  the  location  of  military  bounty  land  warrants 
under  existing  laws:  Provided,  That  maximum  compensation  shall 
not  be  thereby  increased. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Governors  of  the  several 
States  to  which  scrip  shall  be  issued  under  this  act  shall  be  required 
to  report  annually  to  Congress  all  sales  made  of  such  scrip  \mtil  the 
whole  shall  be  disposed  of,  the  amount  received  for  the  same,  and 
what  appropriation  has  been  made  of  the  proceeds. 

Approved,  July  2,  1862. 


Act  of  1883,  Amending  Section  4  of  the  Act  of  1862. 

AX  A»  T  To  amend  an  act  donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories 
which  may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  art?. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  the  fourth  section  of 
the  act  donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories 
which  may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the 
mechanic  arts,  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
two,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

"Sec.  4.  That  all  moneys  derived  from  the  sale  of  lands  aforesaid 
by  the  States  to  which  lands  are  apportioned,  and  from  the  sales  of 


6  COLLEGES    OF    AGRICULTURE    AND    MECHANIC   ARTS. 

land  scrip  hereinbefore  provided  for,  shall  be  invested  in  stocks  of  the 
United  States  or  of  the  States,  or  some  other  safe  stocks;  or  the  same 
may  be  invested  by  the  States  having  no  State  stocks,  in  any  other 
manner  after  the  legislatures  of  such  States  shall  have  assented 
thereto,  and  engaged  that  such  funds  shall  yield  not  less  than  five 
per  centum  upon  the  amount  so  invested  and  that  the  principal 
thereof  shall  forever  remain  unimpaired:  Provided,  That  the  moneys 
so  invested  or  loaned  shall  constitute  a  perpetual  fund,  the  capital  of 
which  shall  remain  forever  undiminished  (except  so  far  as  may  be 
provided  in  section  five  of  this  act),  and  the  interest  of  which  shall 
be  inviolably  appropriated,  by  each  State  which  may  take  and  claim 
the  benefit  of  this  act,  to  the  endowment,  support,  and  maintenance 
of  at  least  one  college  where  the  leading  object  shall  be,  without 
excluding  other  scientific  and  classical  studies,  and  including  military 
tactics,  to  teach  such  branches  of  learning  as  are  related  to  agriculture 
and  the  mechanic  arts,  in  such  manner  as  the  legislatures  of  the 
States  may  respectively  prescribe,  in  order  to  promote  the  liberal  and 
practical  education  of  the  industrial  classes  in  the  several  pursuits 
and  professions  in  life." 
Approved  March  3,  1883. 

Morrill  Act  of  1890. 

AN  ACT  To  apply  a  portion  of  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete 
endowment  and  support  of  the  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts  established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress  approved  July  second, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  oj  the  United 
States  oj  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  shall  be,  and 
hereby  is,  annually  appropriated,  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  arising  from  the  sale  of  public  lands,  to  be 
paid  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  each  State  and  Territory  for  the  more 
complete  endowment  and  maintenance  of  colleges  for  the  benefit  of 
agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts  now  established,  or  winch  may  be 
hereafter  established,  in  accordance  with  an  act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  the  sum  of 
fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such, 
appropriation  thereafter  for  ten  years  by  an  additional  sum  of  one 
thousand  dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual  amount  to 
be  paid  thereafter  to  each  State  and  Territory  shall  be  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars  to  be  applied  only  to  instruction  in  agriculture,  the 
mechanic  arts,  the  English  language  and  the  various  branches  of 
mathematical,  physical,  natural  and  economic  science',  with  special 
reference  to  their  applications  in  the  industries  of  life,  and  to  the 


FEDERAL  LAWS,    REGULATIONS,   AND   RULINGS.  7 

facilities  for  such  instruction:  Provided,  That  no  money  shall  be  paid 
out  under  this  act  to  any  State  or  Territory  for  the  support  and 
maintenance  of  a  college  where  a  distinction  of  race  or  color  is  made  in 
the  admission  of  students,  but  the  establishment  and  maintenance 
of  such  colleges  separately  for  white  and  colored  students  shall  be 
held  to  be  a  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  if  the  funds 
received  in  such  State  or  Territory  be  equitably  divided  as  hereinafter 
set  forth:  Provided,  That  in  any  State  in  which  there  has  boon  one 
college  established  in  pursuance  of  the  act  of  July  second,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  also  in  which  an  educational  institution 
of  like  character  has  been  established,  or  may  be  hereafter  established, 
and  is  now  aided  by  such  State  from  its  own  revenue,  for  the  educa- 
tion of  colored  students  in  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  how- 
ever named  or  styled,  or  whether  or  not  it  has  recevied  money  hereto- 
fore under  the  act  to  which  this  act  is  an  amendment,  the  Legislature 
of  such  State  may  propose  and  report  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior 
a  just  and  equitable  division  of  the  fund  to  be  received  under  this  act 
between  one  college  for  white  students  and  one  institution  for  colored 
students  established  as  aforesaid,  which  shall  be  divided  into  two 
parts  and  paid  accordingly,  and  thereupon  such  institution  for  col- 
ored students  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  this  act  and  subject 
to  its  provisions,  as  much  as  it  would  have  been  if  it  had  been  included 
under  the  act  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  fulfillment 
of  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  be  taken  as  a  compliance  with  the 
provision  in  reference  to  separate  colleges  for  white  and  colored 
students. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  sums  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and  Ter- 
ritories for  the  further  endowment  and  support  of  colleges  shall  bo 
annually  paid  on  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  July  of  each  year, 
by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  Secretary 
of  the  Interior,  out  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States,  to  the  State 
or  Territorial  treasurer,  or  to  such  officer  as  shall  be  designated  by 
the  laws  of  such  State  or  Territory  to  receive  the  same,  who  shall, 
upon  the  order  of  the  trustees  of  the  college,  or  the  institution  for 
colored  students,  immediately  pay  over  said  sums  to  the  treasurers 
of  the  respective  colleges  or  other  institutions  entitled  to  receive  the 
same,  and  such  treasurers  shall  bo  required  to  report  to  the  Secretary 
of  Agriculture  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  September  of  each  year,  a  detailed  statement  of  the 
amount  so  received  and  of  its  disbursement.  The  grants  of  moneys 
authorized  by  this  act  are  made  subject  to  the  legislative  assent  of  the 
several  States  and  Territories  to  the  purpose  of  said  grants:  Provided, 
That  payments  of  such  installments  of  the  appropriation  herein  made 
as  shall  become  due  to  any  State  before  the  adjournment  of  the  regular 
session  of  legislature  meeting  next  after  the  passage  of  this  act  shall 


8  COLLEGES    OF    AGRICULTURE    AND    MECHANIC    ARTS. 

be  made  upon  the  assent  of  the  governor  thereof,  duly  certified  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Sec  3.  That  if  any  portion  of  the  moneys  received  by  the  desig- 
nated officer  of  the  State  or  Territory  for  the  further  and  more  com- 
plete endowment,  support,  and  maintenance  of  colleges,  or  of  insti- 
tutions for  colored  students,  as  provided  in  this  act,  shall,  by  any 
action  or  contingency,  be  diminished  or  lost,  or  be  misapplied,  it  shall 
be  replaced  by  the  State  or  Territory  to  which  it  belongs,  and  until  so 
replaced  no  subsequent  appropriation  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to 
such  State  or  Territory ;  and  no  portion  of  said  moneys  shall  be  applied, 
directly  or  indirectly,  under  any  pretense  whatever,  to  the  purchase, 
erection,  preservation,  or  repair  of  any  building  or  buildings.  An 
annual  report  by  the  president  of  each  of  said  colleges  shall  be  made 
to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  as  well  as  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Interior,  regarding  the  condition  and  progress  of  each  college,  includ- 
ing statistical  information  in  relation  to  its  receipts  and  expenditures, 
its  library,  the  number  of  its  students  and  professors,  and  also  as  to 
any  improvements  and  experiments  made  under  the  direction  of  any 
experiment  stations  attached  to  said  colleges,  with  their  costs  and 
results,  and  such  other  industrial  and  economical  statistics  as  may  be 
regarded  as  useful,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  transmitted  by  mail 
free  to  all  other  colleges  further  endowed  under  this  act. 

Sec  4.  That  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year,  after 
the  passage  of  this  act,  the  Secretaiy  of  the  Interior  shall  ascertain 
and  certify  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  as  to  each  State  and  Ter- 
ritory whether  it  is  entitled  to  receive  its  share  of  the  annual  appro- 
priation for  colleges,  or  of  institutions  for  colored  students,  under 
this  act,  and  the  amount  which  thereupon  each  is  entitled,  respec- 
tively, to  receive.  If  the  Secretaiy  of  the  Interior  shall  withhold  a 
certificate  from  any  State  or  Territory  of  its  appropriation  the  facts 
and  reasons  therefor  shall  be  reported  to  the  President,  and  the 
amount  involved  shall  be  kept  separate  in  the  Treasury  until  the  close 
of  the  next  Congress,  in  order  that  the  State  or  Territory  may,  if  it 
should  so  desire,  appeal  to  Congress  from  the  determination  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Interior.  If  the  next  Congress  shall  not  direct  such 
sum  to  be  paid  it  shall  be  covered  into  the  Treasury.  And  the  Sec- 
retaiy of  the  Interior  is  hereby  charged  with  the  proper  administra- 
tion of  this  law. 

Sec  5.  That  the  Secretaiy  of  the  Interior  shall  annually  report  to 
Congress  the  disbursements  which  have  been  made  in  all  the  States 
and  Territories,  and  also  whether  the  appropriation  of  any  State  or 
Territory  has  been  witldield,  and  if  so,  the  reasons  therefor. 

Sec  6.  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  suspend,  or  repeal  any 
or  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  act.     (Approved,  Aug.  30,  1890.) 


FEDERAI,    LAWS,    REGULATIONS,    AND    RULINGS.  9 

Nelson  Amendment  of  1907. 

[Extract  from  "An  Act  making  appropriations  Eor  the  Department  of  Agriculture 
for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,"  approved 

Mar.   I,  1907  (Public— No.  242),] 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  lions,  <>/  It,  prt  sentativt  s  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled, 

******* 

That  there  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  annually  appropriated,  out  of  any 
money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  paid  as  here- 
inafter provided,  to  each  State  and  Territory  for  the  more  complete 
endowment  and  maintenance  of  agricultural  colleges  now  established, 
or  which  may  hereafter  be  established,  in  accordance  with  the  Act  of 
Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and 
the  Act  of  Congress  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety,  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  sums  named 
in  the  said  Act,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  eight,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such  appro- 
priation thereafter  for  four  years  by  an  additional  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual  sum  to  be  paid  there- 
after to  each  State  and  Territory  shall  be  fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  be 
applied  only  for  the  purposes  of  the  agricultural  colleges  as  defined  and 
limited  in  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  and  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  August  thirtieth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  ninety. 

That  the  sum  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and  Territories  for 
the  further  endowment  and  support  of  the  colleges  shall  be  paid  by,  to, 
and  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  August 
thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety,  entitled  "An  Act  to  apply  a 
portion  of  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete 
endowment  and  support  of  the  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture 
and  the  mechanic  arts  established  under  the  provisions  of  the  Act  of 
Congress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two," 
and  the  expenditure  of  the  said  money  shall  be  governed  in  all  respects 
by  the  provisions  of  the  said  Act  of  Congress  approved  July  second, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  said  Act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety:  Provided, 
That  said  colleges  may  use  a  portion  of  this  money  for  providing 
courses  for  the  special  preparation  of  instructors  for  teaching  the 
elements  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts. 


10  COLLEGES   OF   AGRICULTURE   AND    MECHANIC   ARTS. 

Rulings  and  Instructions  Relative  to  the  Acts  of 
Congress  of  August  30,  1890,  and  March  4,  1907, 
in  Aid  of  Colleges  of  Agriculture  and  Mechanic 
Arts. 

The  attention  of  presidents,  treasurers,  and  boards  of  control  of 
State  colleges  of  agriculture  and  mechanic  arts,  and  of  institutions  of 
like  character  for  colored  students,  is  respectfully  called  to  the 
requirements  of  the  acts  of  Congress,  approved  August  3f0,  1890  (26 
Stat.  L.,  p.  417),  and  March  4,  1907  (34  Stat.  L.,  p.  1281),  in  aid  of 
colleges  of  agriculture  and  mechanic  arts  respecting  the  annual 
reports  of  the  presidents  and  treasurers  of  said  institutions  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  and  to 
certain  decisions  respecting  the  disbursement  of  the  funds  authorized 
by  the  said  act. 

1.  The  annual  reports  of  treasurers  are  required  to  be  made  on  or 
before  September  1  of  each  year  (sec.  2). 

2.  The  reports  of  presidents  must  be  received  before  the  States  can 
be  certified  for  the  annual  installments  of  this  fund,  and  it  is  respect- 
fully requested  that  they  be  forwarded  to  this  office  not  later  than 
September  1  of  each  year. 

3.  The  funds  annually  appropriated  by  the  act  of  August  30,  1890, 
must  be  expended  during  the  year  for  which  they  are  appropriated 
and  for  the  purposes  specified  in  the  said  act,  and  can  not  be  allowed 
to  accumulate  in  the  form  of  an  unexpended  balance  or  be  invested 
as  a  permanent  interest-bearing  fund  (decision  of  the  Assistant 
Attorney  General,  June  20,  1899).  The  department  will  insist  on 
the  expenditure  annually  of  substantially  the  entire  amount  appro- 
priated by  the  act  of  August  30,  1890,  and  the  act  of  March  4,  1907, 
and  boards  of  control  of  agricultural  and  mechanical  colleges  are 
requested  to  make  provision  for  such  expenditures.  It  is  under- 
stood, of  course,  that  contracts  may  be  entered  into  for  machinery  or 
other  educational  material  which,  for  good  reasons,  may  not  be 
ready  and  paid  for  until  the  following  year.  In  such  cases  it  is  suffi- 
cient to  explain,  by  a  note  in  the  report,  that  the  balance  is  held  for 
the  purpose  of  liquidating  bills  already  incurred,  and  stating  the 
nature  of  the  outstanding  contracts. 

4.  The  funds  are  "to  be  applied  only  to  instruction  in  agriculture, 
the  mechanic  arts,  the  English  language,  and  the  various  branches  of 
mathematical,  physical,  natural  and  economic  science,  with  special 
reference  to  their  applications  in  the  industries  of  life,  and  to  the 
facilities  for  such  instruction"  and  "for  providing  courses  for  the 
special  preparation  of  instructors  for  teaching  the  elements  of  agri- 
culture and  mechanic  arts."     It  is  held  that  this  language  authorizes 


FEDERAL  LAWS,   REGULATIONS,   AND   RULINGS.  11 

the  purchase  from  this  money  of  apparatus,  machinery,  textbooks, 
reference  books,  stock,  and  material  used  in  instruction,  or  for  the 
purposes  of  illustration  in  connection  with  any  of  the  branches 
enumerated,  and  the  payment  of  salaries  of  instructors  in  said 
branches  only;  but,  in  case  of  machinery  (such  as  boilers,  engines, 
pumps,  etc.)  and  farm  stock,  which  are  made  to  serve  for  both 
instructional  and  other  purposes,  the  Federal  funds  may  be  charged 
with  only  an  equitable  portion  of  the  cost  of  said  machinery  and 
stock. 

5.  The  expenditure  of  any  portion  of  these  funds  for  the  purchase, 
erection,  preservation,  or  repair  of  any  building  or  buildings  under 
any  pretense  whatever  is  specifically  prohibited  by  the  act  (sec.  3); 
tne  purchase  of  land  is  not  allowable  (decision  of  Assistant  Attorney 
General,  Mar.,  1891),  nor  expenditures  for  permanent  improvement 
to  buildings,  grounds,  and  farms,  such  as  clearing,  draining,  and 
fencing  of  land. 

6.  The  salaries  of  purely  administrative  officers,  such  as  treasurers 
(decision  of  Assistant  Attorney  General,  Mar.  7,  1894),  presidents, 
secretaries,  bookkeepers,  janitors,  watchmen,  etc.,  can  not  be  charged 
to  this  fund,  nor  the  salaries  of  other  administrative  officers,  like 
superintendents,  foremen,  and  matrons,  and  the  wages  of  unskilled 
laborers  and  assistants  in  shops,  laboratories,  and  fields;  nor  can  it  be 
expended  for  heating  or  lighting  buildings,  musical  instruments,  mili- 
tary equipment,  furniture,  cases,  shelving,  desks,  blackboards,  tables, 
lockers,  salaries  of  instructors  in  philosophy,  psychology,  ethics,  logic, 
history,  political  science,  civics,  pedagogy,  military  science  and  tac- 
tics, and  in  ancient  and  modern  languages  (except  English) .  When 
an  administrative  officer  also  gives  instruction  in  any  of  the  branches 
of  study  mentioned  in  the  act  of  August  30,  1890,  or  when  an  instruc- 
tor gives  such  instruction  and  also  devotes  part  of  his  time  to  giving 
instruction  in  branches  of  study  not  mentioned  in  the  said  act,  only 
a  part  of  such  person's  salary  proportionate  to  the  time  devoted  to 
giving  instruction  in  the  branches  of  study  mentioned  in  the  said  act 
of  August  30,  1890,  can  be  charged  to  these  funds.  In  the  division  of 
time  between  instructional  and  other  services,  one  hour  of  instruc- 
tion shall  be  regarded  as  the  equivalent  of  two  hours  of  administra- 
tive, supervisory,  or  experiment  station  work. 

7.  Xo  part  of  the  funds  received  under  the  provisions  of  the  acts 
of  1890  and  1907  may  be  used  for  any  form  of  extension  work,  and 
all  instruction  must  be  given  at  the  institutions  receiving  these  funds, 
except  that  a  reasonable  portion  of  the  funds  provided  by  the  act  of 
1907  may  be  used  for  the  instruction  of  teachers  in  agriculture, 
mechanic  arts,  and  domestic  science  at  summer  schools,  teachers' 
institutes,  and  by  correspondence,  and  in  supervising  and  directing 
work  in  these  subjects  in  high  schools. 


12 


COLLEGES    OF    AGRICULTURE    AND    MECHANIC    ARTS. 


8.  All  or  a  part  of  the  funds  provided  by  the  act  of  March  4,  1907, 
may  be  used  "for  providing  courses  for  the  special  preparation  of 
instructors  for  teaching  the  elements  of  agriculture  and  mechanic 
arts."  It  is  held  that  this  language  authorizes  expenditures  for 
instruction  in  the  history  of  agriculture  and  industrial  education,  in 
methods  of  teaching  agriculture,  mechanic  arts,  and  home  economics, 
and  also  for  special  aid  and  supervision  given  to  teachers  actively 
engaged  in  teaching  agriculture,  mechanic  arts,  and  home  economics 
in  public  schools.  It  does  not  authorize  expenditures  for  general 
courses  in  pedagogy,  psychology,  history  of  education,  and  methods 
of  teaching. 

9.  In  order  that  greater  uniformity  in  the  reports  of  treasurers  m.a,y 
be  obtained  in  the  future,  the  following  classification  of  subjects  that 
may  be  included  under  the  several  schedules  has  been  prepared,  such 
classification  to  be  adhered  to  by  the  treasurers  of  the  various  insti- 
tutions hi  the  preparation  of  their  annual  reports: 


1.  Agriculture. 

2.  Horticulture. 

3.  Forestry. 

4.  Agronomy. 

5.  Animal  husbandry 


Schedule  A. — Instruction  in  agriculture. 

6.  Dairying. 

7.  Veterinary  science. 

8.  Poultry  industry. 

9.  Apiculture. 


1.  Mechanical  engineering. 

2.  Civil  engineering. 

3.  Electrical  engineering. 

4.  Irrigation  engineering 

5.  Mining  engineering. 

6.  Marine  engineering. 

7.  Railway  engineering. 

8.  Experimental  engineering 

9.  Textile  industry. 


Schedule  B. — Instruction  in  mechanic  arts. 

10.  Architecture. 

11 .  Machine  design. 

12.  Mechanical  drawing. 

13.  Ceramics. 

14.  Stenography. 

15.  Typewriting. 
10.  Telegraphy. 

17.  Printing. 

18.  Shopwork. 


1.  English  language. 

2.  English  literature. 

3.  Composition. 


1.  Mathematics. 

2.  Bookkeeping. 


Schedule  <  . — Instruction  in  English  language. 

4.  Rhetoric. 

5.  Oratory. 

Schedule  D. — Instruction  in  mathematical  sciences. 
I  3.  Astronomy. 


Schedule  E. 


1.  Chemistry. 

2.  Physics. 

3.  Biology. 

4.  Botany. 

5.  Zoology. 

6.  Geology. 

7.  Mineralogy. 


-Instruction  in  natural  and  physical  sciences. 

8.  Metallurgy. 

9.  Entomology. 

10.  Physiology. 

11.  Bacteriology. 

12.  Pharmacy. 

13.  Physical  geography. 

14.  Meteorology. 


FEDERAL    LAWS,    RKGHLATTONS,    AND    RULINGS.  13 

Schedule  F. — Instructio  nic  sciences. 

1.  Political  economy.  I  3.  Commercial  geography. 

2.  Home  economics. 

Schedule  G. — Special  preparation  of  teachers. 

1.  History  of  industrial  education  (with  special  reference  to  agriculture,  mechanic 

arts,  and  home  economics). 

2.  Methods  of  teaching  agriculture,  mechanic  arts,  and  home  economics. 

3.  Special  instruction   to  persons  teaching  agriculture,   mechanic  arts,   and  home 

economics. 

Very  respectfully.  P.  P.  Claxton, 

Commissioner. 
Approved,  November  2,  1911. 

Caemi  A.  Thompson, 

Acting  Secretary. 

o 


UNIVEKSITY  OF  CALIFOENIA  LIBRAEY, 
BERKELEY 


THIS  BOOK  IS  DUE  ON  THE  LAST  DATE 
STAMPED  BELOW 

Books  not  returned  on  time  are  subject  to  a  fine  of 
50c  per  volume  after  the  third  day  overdue,  increasing 
to  $1.00  per  volume  after  the  sixth  day.  Books  not  in 
demand  may  be  renewed  if  application  is  made  before 
expiration  of  loan  period. 


-racuse, 


N.  V 


PAT.  JAN.  21,  1908 


272704 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  LIBRARY 


